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It is a conundrum...the internet has made some things faster and easier....I no longer have to search the little print in a phone book to find what I'm looking for! I can book my own reservations and such with the click of a button.
But..there are those who have stopped communicating via the spoken word...too many "texts" instead of conversation! I mean, a text is a good tool, but if it goes on and on and on....pick up the phone and TALK to the person!
Give me your phone number...I'll call! (Just kidding, but still....)
It is a conundrum...the internet has made some things faster and easier....I no longer have to search the little print in a phone book to find what I'm looking for! I can book my own reservations and such with the click of a button.
But..there are those who have stopped communicating via the spoken word...too many "texts" instead of conversation! I mean, a text is a good tool, but if it goes on and on and on....pick up the phone and TALK to the person!
Give me your phone number...I'll call! (Just kidding, but still....)
Sure, I'll give you my phone number, but I won't post it here for the world because I don't have time to talk to the whole world - (as if the whole world wants to talk with me anyway ).
I'm the suspicious type. When I think of the technological revolution, I'm happy for the medical advances, the Hubble telescope, and things of that nature, but I could do without the invasion of privacy, identity theft, and the pace of life nowadays. I structure my life in such a way that the speed of the world doesn't affect me much, and I like the ease with which I can search for information on just about anything, and get it in a fraction of a second.
Still, I'm old enough to remember a warmer, slower time, when there weren't cameras on every street corner, in all stores, and even outer space. I don't know about you, but I will never require 300+ channels on my TV. (I don't even HAVE TV. We only watch movies on our TV screen - movies that we own.)
There's more, but I have to run to... ahem... the ladies' room. I'll be back - barring something highly unusual happening. So much for privacy, LOL!
Violent crime is at historic lows during the Internet era
What?
You obviously don't live in Chicago or Detroit. And we have much more of these random mass shooting crimes that we have not had in the past.
I think the internet increases the velocity of good, or the velocity of evil. It just spreads everything at a faster rate.
In Texas, we celebrate Juneteenth (June 19th), as the day the slaves were freed - even though Emancipation Proclamation was made effective on January 1, 1863. It took that long for the word to get out here. With the internet, we probably would have known before it happened. officially. Oh... and that was June 19, 1865.
the internet is as useful as it is harmful. It depends on the person using it. Scientists can communicate worldwide, instantaneously to discuss and share solutions to every known crisis. Or, a couple of guys in West Virginia can learn how to manufacture meth in the van.
the internet is as useful as it is harmful. It depends on the person using it. Scientists can communicate worldwide, instantaneously to discuss and share solutions to every known crisis. Or, a couple of guys in West Virginia can learn how to manufacture meth in the van.
And some people use it to let you know they have to pee.
"Fascinating" bits of TMI
The internet has certainly made life more convenient for all of us but it has also created the greatest diversion for wasting time better used for more productive pursuits.
The internet has made the world a smaller place in that a news worthy event is broadcast to our fingertips (cell phone) in a minute when not that long ago it would at least wait for the 6:00 TV news or next days newspaper.
The internet has brought terrorism to us and put corrupt politicians front and center. It has also made things that used to be tabboo like porn more mainstream.
The internet is good and bad. Imagine life tomorrow if it shut off today? There would be riots.
The democratization of media means more people can produce and distribute bullsh!t.
There are so many crappy movies.
Our problem is filtering.
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